New Hard Drive for my Music. I have a question........

Assuming you have all of you music on the old hard drive and now have both drives in your pc you just need to open explorer and drag the folder(s) with your music over to the other drive. If all of the music is only on your iPod I think you can copy it back with Ephod or Xplay.

MM stores all music into a folder. Locate that folder and copy it to the new hard drive :)

If you're not too sure where your music is, look in your musicmatch options, and there should be somewhere that lets you set where your library is stored.

Or i suppose you could run a search of your computer for .mp3 files, and see where you get the most hits.

Then, as the others have said, just move all those mp3s onto the new harddrive, just as if you were moving them to a 3.5" floppy.

Keep in mind however, that chances are if you just drag and drop them over, it will copy them. So you will have your music on your new harddrive, but the original will stay on your first harddrive. You'll need to delete them from the first drive in order to free up that space.

Chances are it isn't the music that's slowing down your computer. But it's always nice to have a harddrive dedicated to mp3 storage.

Keeps things a bit more organized. Plus you get the room to expand your collection a lot more.

hope it all goes as planned (otherwise i'm sure we'll hear back from you about it :P )

Hold on there my young Padawan.
How much stuff do you actually have on the old drive - are there a lot of programs and stuff that you cannot replace - or settings you cannot live without?
Because you could, and i have done this many times - start from scratch on the new drive - install the os, prgrams etc etc, then add the old drive as a slave, just placed carefully where it is not going to fall into the machine (I normally place the machine on its side - leave the side panel off and rest the dh on the frame - or in the pc - remember this is only for a short period)- then copy the stuff across, detach - and never have to deal with it again!

Just be careful!

LOL - you have to have some idea what you're upto to do it i must admit!

You could always take the floppy disk (assuming you have one) out temporarily whilst you transfer data from the old to the new hard disk.

i have an external lacie 120gig firewire drive for music and movies and it is really really awesome

get one, no installation hassles and i dont think they cost that much

ibons: He may not have a Dell though. He stated that he only bought his second hard drive through Dell. If he has an old computer, then I guess it is possible he only has 1 3.5" internal rack. eBay it up to find some external drive cages.

Originally posted by ibons
hmm he did say "I've got a brand new Dell , but they ship with only 128 mb of RAM? " :) that really hit me because when my bro decided to get his dell, i was boggled at how they could offer only 128mb of ram as their basic configuration, seeing as ram prices are pretty cheap now and all.. their pricing methods are really willy i must say, they give you the best processor and cut down on the rest so that it seems a bargain.

but then again, if you have to get a branded pc i guess they're reasonable value.

Ahh whoops, I guess I missed that post. :)
Frankly, I don't care if Dell offers 128MB of RAM in their basic configuration because other places sell RAM much cheaper than what Dell wants for you to pay. Perhaps ross88 is just a computer newbie, and doesn't really know about the internals of his computer. Enlighten him!

No, you can buy a 3.5" external cage to put your internal hard drive into. Or you can buy a mounting cage to put the hard drive into an unused 5.25"drive slot.